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[flgoose]

I've been running my 321 for over a year now with no problems.  The 321 has 2 seagate 1T drives set as volume 1 volume 2. flashed 1.03

The other day I suffered a brown out and since that happen, I had trouble accessing my data.  Eventually I was able to access the data by swapping the drives.  Not sure if installing the ext2 from soundforge had anything to do with it.  Regardless, since things really din't work as well as they used to, I decided to start from scatch.  So, I moved my data from volume 1 ( seemed to be the troublesome drive)to my drives in the pc.  Couple of days later and a lot of cleaning up of old files I finally was at the point that i could reformat the drive.  So I pulled Volume 2 out, inserted volume 1 in the correct slot and reformatted the drive.  Great, everything seems to be ok so far. 

Now my questions are:  When I reformatted the drive, it shows 75gb used.  Does the 321 put something on the drive?  If it does, that could have been the corrupted stuff that made my drive unaccessible in the original configuration.  Would be nice to know that one.

Second question:  What is going to happen if i just insert the second drive?  Is the 321 going to format that one?  I don't want too loose the data on it so I'm asking before i do something i will regret.  If that is going to be the case, I will insert that drive in the pc and move the data  out of there before inserting the drive back in the 321. 

Please enlighten me.

Thanks

[gunrunnerjohn]

I'd deal with the issues with the first drive.  Remove it and connect it to your computer, run the complete disk manufacturer's low level format and diagnostic on it.  Make sure the drive is good before proceeding.

I'd also reset the DNS-321 to factory defaults to make sure nothing there is affecting you.

[flgoose]

I have done that already.  Disk passes all diagnostics after beeing installed on the pc.  Then I installed it in the DNS, reset the DNS to factory setting and formatted the disk.  So I believe the first disk is in perfect working condition. 

I have not moved data to volume 1 just yet as my doubts are still with the second disk (which for now is sitting on the desk).

I just want to make sure nothing is going to happen to volume 2 data when I insert it in the DNS.  Does anyone know?  anything I read didn't really apply to this situation.

[gunrunnerjohn]

I've removed the drive from my NAS and put them back in without them formatting.  I'd stick the drive in by itself and see if it's recognized, it should be.

[flgoose]

Well I stuck the second drive in Vol 2 slot (it's original place).  When i tried to map it, i couldn't find it.  So I used the easy search utility and tried to map it from there.  It was asking me for user and password.  The original configuration had user and password for both drives but when i reformatted volume one, i did away with users and passwords as i no longer needed that feature.  I also had changed the DNS name.  Well it wouldn't let me map it without user password combo.  I tried the original, I tried the admin original and the new admin but no could do.  Could not map the drive at all. 

I figure, there must be something on the drive from the old configuration.  so i went into the configuration for the DNS and sure enough, the drive showed that had a user attached to it in the network access tab.  So I trashed that user for that drive and created an access for the drive with the all checkbox checked.

Finally everything works as it should. 

I'm a little skeptic of this and maybe i'm just over doing it but i'm moving everything from volume 2 to volume one and plan on reformatting that one as well before moving all the files from my pc back on the DNS. 

What happen to me could happen to someone else and this post may help them

[gunrunnerjohn]

All's well that ends well, at least you didn't lose any data.